Proteomic analysis of wild-type Sinorhizobium meliloti responses to N-acyl homoserine lactone quorum-sensing signals and the transition to stationary phase?

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 5029-5036

  Chen, Hancai ^a   Teplitski, Max ^b   Robinson, Jayne B ^c   Rolfe, Barry G ^a   Bauer, Wolfgang D ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N ACYL HOMOSERINE LACTONE; NITROGEN; POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENERGY; METABOLITE; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI 1021;

EID: 0041888381     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.17.5029-5036.2003     Document Type: Article

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